In many courts, magistrate judges are assigned pretrial matters and reports and recommendations in prisoner litigation. Magistrate judges issued 26,666 reports and recommendations (down less than 1 percent) and conducted 436 evidentiary hearings in such cases.

This year, magistrate judge workload statistics were produced using a new software program that recalculated the statistics for 2013 and for previous years. In some categories, the statistics provided in this report differ from the ones displayed in those categories in previous reports.

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